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54
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17611
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4508
National Ranking
2501

Overview

Shaun Nichols is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and philosophy.

Their work prominently addresses key topics such as the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, emotions and moral behavior, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, ethics in business and education, experimental behavioral economics studies, social and intergroup psychology, and epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.

Recent publications by Shaun Nichols include:

  • Natural Compatibilism, Indeterminism, and Intrusive Metaphysics, 2020, Cognitive Science
  • Teleological Essentialism: Generalized, 2020, Cognitive Science
  • Experiential Unity without a Self: The Case of Synchronic Synthesis, 2020, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
  • "False positive" emotions, responsibility, and moral character, 2021, Cognition
  • Unveiling the True Nature of Confucian Humility in the Modern Context: A Methodological Proposal for Interdisciplinary Research Combining Cultural Psychology and East Asian Philosophy, 2023, ()

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nichols include Monima Chadha, David A. Pizarro, Tamar Kushnir, Scott Partington, and David Rosé.

Shaun Nichols has contributed to a range of publication venues, with an emphasis on:

  • Cognition
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cognitive Science
  • Australasian Journal of Philosophy
  • PLoS ONE

Among book publications, Nichols has a book titled Rational Rules, published in 2021 by Oxford University Press, which has been cited multiple times.

Best Publications

  • Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds

    Shaun Nichols;Stephen P. Stich

  • Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment

    Shaun Nichols

  • Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions

    Jonathan M. Weinberg;Shaun Nichols;Stephen Stich

  • Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2

    Joshua Knobe;Shaun Nichols

  • Moral Responsibility and Determinism: The Cognitive Science of Folk Intuitions

    Shaun Nichols;Joshua Knobe

  • Semantics, Cross-Cultural Style.

    Edouard Machery;Ron Mallon;Shaun Nichols;Stephen P. Stich

  • The essential moral self.

    Nina Strohminger;Shaun Nichols

  • Folk Psychology: Simulation or Tacit Theory?

    Stephen Stich;Shaun Nichols

  • Oxford studies in experimental philosophy

    Tania Lombrozo;Joshua Michael Knobe;Shaun Nichols

  • A cognitive theory of pretense.

    Shaun Nichols;Stephen Stich

  • Norms with feeling: Towards a psychological account of moral judgment

    Shaun Nichols

  • Moral dilemmas and moral rules.

    Shaun Nichols;Ron Mallon

  • Memory and the Sense of Personal Identity

    Stanley B. Klein;Shaun Nichols

  • Is Belief in Free Will a Cultural Universal

    Hagop Sarkissian;Amita Chatterjee;Felipe De Brigard;Joshua Knobe;Joshua Knobe

  • Intuitions and Individual Differences: The Knobe Effect Revisited

    Shaun Nichols;Joseph Ulatowski

  • The Folk Psychology of Free Will: Fits and Starts

    Shaun Nichols

  • An experimental philosophy manifesto.

    Joshua Knobe;Shaun Nichols

  • Neurodegeneration and Identity

    Nina Strohminger;Shaun Nichols

  • The Architecture of the Imagination

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  • Against Arguments from Reference

    Ron Mallon;Edouard Machery;Shaun Nichols;Stephen Stich

  • How psychopaths threaten moral rationalism: Is it irrational to be amoral?

    Shaun Nichols

  • Are children moral objectivists? Children's judgments about moral and response-dependent properties

    Shaun Nichols;Trisha Folds-Bennett

  • Bringing moral responsibility down to earth

    Adina L. Roskies;Shaun Nichols

  • Mindreading and the Cognitive Architecture Underlying Altruistic Motivation

    Shaun Nichols

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Stich
Stephen Stich Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Tania Lombrozo
Tania Lombrozo Princeton University
Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Liane Young
Liane Young Boston College
Stanley B. Klein
Stanley B. Klein University of California, Santa Barbara
Alan G. Sanfey
Alan G. Sanfey Radboud University
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University

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